"Nick Pollotta - Bureau 13 - Judgment-Night" - читать интересную книгу автора (Pollotta Nick)

The RV was sitting in a clear patch of floor, surrounded by
a pile of brick and plasterboard that filled the room to the
ceiling and spilled through the side doorway and down the
stairs. In front of us, was a ragged tunnel the size of the van
leading through a series of smashed walls. With sudden
understanding, I realized that the blast resulting from the
colliding trucks must have thrown us off the highway and
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by Nick Pollotta


inside an apartment building. And from the dilapidated
condition of the room about us, obviously an abandoned one.
Nothing unusual there. The Bronx was full of vacant buildings.
Hundreds of them waiting for a promised renovation that
would never come.
Pushing open the door, I wadded through the wreckage to
reach a section of clear floor and proceeded down the tunnel.
It ended in a crumbling hole through the outer brick wall of
the building. Watching my step, I took a position near the
edge of the floor and trained a pair of inflatable binoculars on
the distant elevated highway. Looking through the cool glass,
I actually felt my heart stop.
The field of debris stretched as far as I could see, the
twisted burning wrecks were strewn everywhere. It would
take a forensic team months to determine how many died in
the titanic blast. Nothing visible was larger than a smoking
tire; cars and people included. As I relayed this information
via my watch, I did not need Jessica's talent to read the
minds of my companions. Somebody was going to pay dearly
for this senseless massacre. Attacking us was expected, just
part of the job, but this kind of wholesale slaughter of
civilians was intolerable.
Supporting the pale wizards, the rest of the team joined
me at the rim of the hole. Mindy kicked a chunk of brick off
and watched it drop to the garbage strewn lot below. тАЬHow
are we going to get down?тАЭ
тАЬThe stairs,тАЭ I said, tossing the binoculars to Donaher.
Mindy gestured. тАЬBut the van...тАЭ
тАЬStays here,тАЭ I interrupted.
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This statement raised a flurry of comments and I saw an
explanation was necessary. тАЬWe have been tracked and
pursued since the lake. We've managed to stay one jump
ahead of our faceless enemy, but they're using the big guns